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JustinC
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Message 1 of 2 (400758)
05-16-2007 3:18 PM


This is a coffee house topic.
I'm just wandering what the general attitude toward drug use is here at EvC. What drugs have you tried? Any regrets with any of them? Do you use, moderately or heavily?
I'll start off its my topic. In the last 10 years of my life (i'm 22), i've tried basically every drug that I'm aware off. These include: alcohol, marijuana, mescaline, LSD, muschrooms, vicodin, percocet, cocaine (powder and rock), oxycotin, heroin, and methadone. Needless to say, I had a very liberal attitude wrt to drug use.
I regret immensely using psychodelics. You literally become insane during these "trips" and, in my opinion, it is the scariest thing one can do to themselves. I don't believe you experience some form of reality not accessible to our normal state of consciosness: you simply are temporarily crazy. Atleast, this is my experience.
With regard to marijuana, i'm still kind of adverse to it since in excessive use it made me very apathetic and hindered my intelligence. When I quit smoking some 3 or 4 years ago I noticed a drastic clarity in thought which I had forgotten in the confusion and haze of THC.
Now with opiates, all I can say is that you are playing Russian roulette since no one really knows how "addictive" their personality is until they've experienced this dopamine rush. Some people can use them moderately, I was one of them, but I didn't know that at the time. I've seen friends spiral out of control with their use, and that could have easily been me. I was lucky enough to not become addicted immediately and stop using before it had permanent effects on my psyche.
Cocaine, on the other hand, I was not so lucky with. I fell for this HARD. I used daily for about 15 months, somehow managing to get through school and graduate. Looking back, I really have no idea how this was achieved considering how strung out of I was most the time. I became someone I despised and it the biggest regret of my life. I still suffer from the effects in terms of a mild depression and incessant (though nowadays less and less frequent) cravings.
This isn't an anti-drug thread or anything. Positive and negative experiences are welcomed if they're so inclined.
Edited by JustinC, : Typos

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05-16-2007 4:59 PM


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